Israel releases map of 1,000 Hizbullah Facilities

The Israeli army has released a map of some 1,000 bunkers and rocket sites and other facilities hidden by the Shiite group Hizbullah among 270 villages in south Lebanon. The army said many of the facilities were located near hospitals, private homes and schools and, according to military intelligence, Hizbullah had an arsenal of more than 40,000 rockets. Hizbullah responded by accusing Israel of playing scare tactics. “They are trying to tell us that they will destroy Lebanon. Let them do it, if they can and I tell them they cannot," Khodr Noureddine, a member of Hezbollah’s political bureau, told the Associated Press. He speculated that Israel might have released the map because Hezbollah’s leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, told the group last month to be prepared to invade northern Israel if a new war breaks out.